Allen-Golder Carpenter
Untitled (100 Rappers), 2025
Plastic, inkjet prints, film transparency, copy paper, acrylic medium
160 x 160 cm
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In Untitled (2025), Carpenter presents a grid of images, some sharp, others blurred or distorted, drawn from popular culture and the internet. Figures flicker between recognition and erasure, suspended in...
In Untitled (2025), Carpenter presents a grid of images, some sharp, others blurred or distorted, drawn from popular culture and the internet. Figures flicker between recognition and erasure, suspended in the tension between exposure and censorship. This oscillation evokes questions central to Carpenter’s practice: what is revealed, what is withheld, and who controls the conditions of representation? Echoing the logics of both “walls of shame” in convenience stores and the blurred faces of digital anonymity, the work situates hip hop culture, celebrity, and everyday identity within broader systems of surveillance and judgment. Carpenter forces us to confront how images function as both evidence and projection, demanding viewers reckon with their complicity in cycles of consumption, condemnation, and desire.